Biblical Views: The Bible Divide

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Not long ago, Bible scholar Michael Coogan was interviewed for the alumni magazine of Stonehill College about his new book God and Sex.1 Coogan was characteristically articulate, striking a mild “just the facts” tone regarding the Bible’s historical background and what the Bible actually has to say about sex. Not surprisingly, the next issue carried a slew of letters from alums, quite a few expressing outrage that such a “godless” man could be teaching Religion in a Catholic college. Accusations of godlessness and worse are a familiar hazard for professors of Biblical Studies (and for BAR), and these letters […]

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Footnotes

See Ronald S. Hendel, Biblical Views: “Biblical Views: Farewell to SBL,” BAR 36:04.

Endnotes

Michael Coogan, God and Sex (New York: Twelve, 2010).

The Reliability of the New Testament: Bart Ehrman and Daniel Wallace in Dialogue (Fortress, 2011), p. 55. This book provides a lively demonstration of the difference between Theology and Religious Studies in action.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.